Informational texts, more complex fantasy, realistic fiction, traditional literature (folktales), biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, mysteries, historical fiction, short stories, genre combinations, diaries • Some collections of short stories that have interrelated themes or build a single plot across the book • Nonfiction texts with multiple topics and categories and subcategories within them • Themes focusing on the problems of preadolescents • Many texts focusing on human problems (war, hardship, economic issues) • Themes that evoke alternative interpretations • Some more complex fantasy elements, some showing conflict between good and evil • Some obvious symbolism • Many words with affixes (prefixes and suffixes, multisyllable proper nouns that are difficult to decode) • Some words from languages other than English • Most texts with no or only minimal illustrations

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